SPECweb99_SSL Result

Dell:	PowerEdge 1850
Zeus Technology Ltd.:	Zeus Web Server 4.2r4 (64 bit)

SPECweb99_SSL = 2570

Performance

Iteration

Conforming Simultaneous Connections

1	2570
2	2570
3	2572
Median	2570

Configuration

Availability Dates
All Hardware	Feb-2005
HTTPS Software	Nov-2003
Operating System	Aug-2004
Supplemental System	Nov-2003

Hardware

Vendor Dell

Model PowerEdge 1850

Processor 3.6GHz Intel Xeon

# Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip (Hyper-Threading enabled)

Primary Cache 12KBI+16KBD on chip

Secondary Cache 2MB(I+D) on chip

Other Cache N/A

Memory 12 GB

Disk Subsystem 2 36GB 15KRPM drives

Disk Controllers Onboard SCSI

Other Hardware 2 Dell PowerConnect 5224, PowerConnect 5012

Software

Operating System SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9

File System ext2

Other Software None

HTTPS Software

Vendor Zeus Technology Ltd.

HTTPS Software Zeus Web Server 4.2r4 (64 bit)

API Zeus PEPP 0.9pre1 ISAPI for Dynamic content

Server Cache None

Log Mode Zeus Binary CLF

Test Sponsor
Test Date	Feb-2005
Tested By	Dell
SPEC License	55

Network

# of Controllers 2

Network Controllers Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter

# of Nets 4

Type of Nets Gigabit Ethernet

Network Speed 1 Gb/s

MSL (sec) 30 (Non RFC1122)

Time-Wait (sec) 60 (Non RFC1122)

MTU 1500

Clients

# of Clients 8

Model 4 Dell PowerEdge 1550, 4 PowerEdge 1650

Processor 1.4GHz Pentium III

# of Processors 2

Memory 2 GB

Network Controller Onboard NIC

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Compiler Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

Benchmark Configuration

Requested Connections 2572

Fileset Size (MB) 8349.68

Notes

SUT Notes

OS on first disk; 2-disk RAID0 stripe for access log and file set

Operating System Notes

ulimit -n 72720, sets number of open files, default 1024
Each NIC's TX queue length set to 40000 via ifconfig, default 100
Each NIC's InterruptThrottleRate set to 3000 via modprobe, default 1
Each NIC IRQ bound to separate logical CPU, default round-robin
File systems mounted with "noatime,nodiratime,noacl", no inode access time updating, no access control lists
fs.file-max = 291879, increases number of open file handles kernel allocates, default 1336934
net.core.optmem_max = 10000000, maximum amount of option memory buffers, default 20480
net.core.rmem_default = 10000000, default recv socket buffer size, default 135168
net.core.rmem_max = 10000000, maximum recv socket buffer size, default 131071
net.core.wmem_default = 10000000, default send socket buffer size, default 135168
net.core.wmem_max = 10000000, maximum send socket buffer size, default 131071
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1, enable source route verification, default 0
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000, sets TCP time-wait buckets pool size, default 180000
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/pressure/max TCP buffer space, default 392192 392704 393216
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/default/max TCP read buffer, default 4096 87380 174760
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000, sets min/pressure/max TCP write buffer, default 4096 16384 131072
irq_balancer daemon disabled, default enabled

HTTPS Software Notes

Zeus tunes ($ZEUSHOME/web/global.cfg):
tuning!bind_any no
tuning!cache_cooling_time 0
tuning!cache_files 282011
tuning!cache_flush_interval 180000
tuning!cache_large_file 1048576
tuning!cache_max_bytes 12884901888
tuning!cache_small_file 90000
tuning!cache_stat_expire 180000
tuning!cbuff_size 65536
tuning!clientfirst_optimise yes
tuning!keepalive yes
tuning!keepalive_max -1
tuning!keepalive_timeout 3600
tuning!listen_queue_size 8192
tuning!maxaccept 2048
tuning!modules!cgi!cleansize 0
tuning!modules!nsapi!enabled no
tuning!modules!stats!enabled no
tuning!sendfile no
tuning!sendfile_maxsize 0
tuning!sendfile_minsize 0
tuning!so_wbuff_size 1048576
tuning!softservers no
tuning!ssl_cbuff_size 32840
tuning!ssl_diskcache no
tuning!ssl_sessioncache_size 6037
tuning!unique_bind yes

Client Notes

manager.ssl.rcp.alt.WIN32, alt.WIN32 client used
Registry tunes: (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\)
- Tcpip\Parameters\MaxUserPort=0xfffe, sets maximum open ports to 65534
- Tcpip\Parameters\TcpTimedWaitDelay=60, sets TIME_WAIT parameter to 60 seconds (non-RFC 1122), default 240
- Tcpip\Parameters\MaxFreeTWTcbs=100000, sets maximum number of TIME_WAIT TCBs
- Tcpip\Parameters\TcpWindowSize=65535, sets TCP send/receive window size, default 8192

Other Notes

Tuning Disclosure: See above.
Dynamic API: HP-20020724-API.tgz
API configured with --ssl=yes

Test Run Details

**Test results for each iteration (median is shaded)**
Iteration	Conforming Connections	Percent Conform	Throughput ops/sec	Response msec	ops/sec/ loadgen	kbit/ sec
1	2570	99.9%	7061.4	364.1	2.75	329.2
2	2570	99.9%	7054.1	364.4	2.74	328.9
3	2572	100.0%	7074.2	363.4	2.75	329.7

Tue Mar 15 17:18:42 2005

First published at SPEC.org on 15-Mar-2005